Increase Your Confidence Part 1 – Celebrate Your Wins

Confidence is something that I’ve struggled with for as long as I can remember. It’s something that used to be ridiculously low. These days, I’m pretty confident in many ways. That being said, there are many areas which I know my confidence is still very much lacking.

I think confidence is so important for our health and happiness. I know when my confidence is low, so is my self-esteem. When my self-esteem is low I’m just not that happy. So right now working on my confidence is a top priority.

To cut a long story short one of my favourite YouTubers Aileen from Lavendaire posted a video about her confidence story. One of the key things she talks about is collecting a bank of wins. Obviously, having confidence it’s a bit more complex than that (hence why this is just part 1 of a series on confidence), but it’s a key component in improving your self-esteem.

One random day on the 14th July I found out my DA had jumped, that was a win. Now for those of you that don’t have a blog or website that may not mean a lot, but basically the better your DA (domain authority) the better chance you’ve got at being found on Google hence helping your blog career. So I decided to celebrate it.

It was a win because when I started I didn’t even know what a DA meant. Then it was stuck on one for months (which is as pretty low as it can get). Now after only 9 months of blogging my blog is finally starting to be found and making waves in the massive ocean of what is Google.

It’s easy to forget these things on days when things don’t seem like are going to plan. So I decided to set myself a challenge as a way of celebrating the wins and thus increasing my confidence.

The challenge is to find a little win every day and to build up my bank of wins. I decided I’d do it for a whole month and log it.

By the end of the month, my confidence increased loads. Taking the time every day to find a win really helped me see the positives. There were days it was really hard, but I learnt you can always find a win.

A win can simply just be getting a job done that you’ve been putting off because let’s be honest beating procrastination is without a doubt a win.

I looked to find the majority of my wins within my career (as that’s where I lack confidence), but some days my wins were family stuff because I didn’t get anything done career-wise, but I did spend time with the family. That is a win for me as in my definition of success my career allows me to have a good family life ‘yalance’.

I’d challenge everyone to find the win in the everyday stuff because you will feel better and more confidence for it. If you decide to celebrate the everyday things then do let me know. FYI you can tag me on Instagram and Twitter as I love seeing people work on their confidence.

To look back on everything you’ve achieved for a month is a great feeling. I know I’d of easily forgot about all these little things without writing them down. It’s so easy to focus on all the stuff we haven’t achieved, but if you can shift your thinking to everything you have achieved then that’s where the magic happens. You go from thinking you’ve achieved nothing with your day, to looking back and thinking wow I did a lot this month. Remembering the achievements and all the good times is a massive confidence booster.

I’ll be back soon with part 2 to increase your confidence as this is simply the start of it.

8 thoughts on “Increase Your Confidence Part 1 – Celebrate Your Wins”

I found this post as I was having my morning coffee, and it was a well spent half an hour watching the video and reading your words. It resonated a lot with me, not only in terms of my life but also to remind me to make sure that my kids have those wins too, and to build their confidence now. I’ve subscribed so that I can read part two and I’m looking forward to that. I think today might be the day that I start recording my wins, too xx

Oh wow, this is such a simple trick yet so effective! Like there are times when I want to do something and anxiety hits and I am low on self-esteem, I try to think of the achievements and boost my confidence. But now that you highlighted it for me It just got clear! It is indeed the best way to quickly pump up your confidence.